鍾

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See also: 钟, 锺, 鐘, and 鈡
鍾 U+937E, 鍾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-937E
← 鍽
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鍿 →

Translingual

Han character

鍾 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹十土 (CHJG), four-corner 82114, composition ⿰釒重)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1316, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40672
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1816, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4232, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+937E

Chinese

trad. 鍾
simp. 钟*/锺
alternative forms 鐘
鈡／钟
螤
𦉂
锺 - only used as a surname or in a given name
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鍾
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撞 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦 *rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇 *rdoːŋ
𩪘 *rdoːŋ
艟 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽 *tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董 *toːŋʔ
蕫 *toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽 *toːŋʔ
懂 *toːŋʔ
湩 *toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童 *doːŋ
僮 *doːŋ
瞳 *doːŋ
罿 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝 *doːŋ
潼 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜 *doːŋ, *doŋ
動 *doːŋʔ
慟 *doːŋs
堹 *toŋs
諥 *toŋs
蹱 *tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重 *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟 *doŋ, *doŋs
蝩 *doŋ
褈 *doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘 *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾 *tjoŋ
籦 *tjoŋ
種 *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫 *tjoŋʔ
踵 *tjoŋʔ
歱 *tjoŋʔ
喠 *tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅 *tjoŋs
衝 *tʰjoŋ
揰 *tʰjoŋs
尰 *djoŋʔ

Pronunciation

Note:
  • cheng - vernacular (incl. surname in Taiwan);
  • chiong - literary (incl. surname in Mainland China and Taiwan).
Rime
Character 鍾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職容切
Baxter tsyowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zung1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鍾 鍾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhōng zhōng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyowng › ‹ tsyowng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*toŋ/ /*toŋ/
English accumulate; repeat bell; wine vessel; an ancient measure

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鍾
Reading # 1/1
No. 17466
Phonetic
component 		重
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		鍾
Old
Chinese 		/*tjoŋ/

Definitions

鍾

  1. vessel for containing alcohol
  2. to concentrate one's love or attention
    鍾愛／钟爱  ―  zhōng'ài  ―  to treasure
    鍾情／钟情  ―  zhōngqíng  ―  to fall in love
    一見鍾情／一见钟情  ―  yījiànzhōngqíng  ―  love at first sight
  3. unit of capacity
  4. Alternative form of 鐘／钟 (zhōng, “percussion musical instrument; bell”)
  5. (obsolete, chiefly Nanzhao) younger brother
  6. a surname
    鍾會／锺会  ―  Zhōng Huì  ―  Zhong Hui (military general and politician of Cao Wei)
    鍾南山／钟南山  ―  Zhōng Nánshān  ―  Zhong Nanshan (Chinese pulmonologist)

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with 鐘／钟 (zhōng). For the surname, upon revision of the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters in 2013, the simplified form of the character was changed to 锺 so as to distinguish the surnames 鍾 and 鐘. Before that, the simplified form of the character was 钟, same as the simplified form of 鐘. Because of this, the surname 鍾 can be simplified to both 钟 or 锺.

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

鍾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. bronze jar used for storing alcohol

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鍾
しょう
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

鍾(しょう) • (shō) 

  1. bronze jar used for storing alcohol

Korean

Hanja

鍾 • (jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune–Reischauer chong, Yale cong)

  1. 음훈: 술병, 술잔 = alcohol bottle, alcohol glass, alcohol receptacle

Vietnamese

Han character

鍾: Hán Nôm readings: chung, chuông

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